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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24.
1923.
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INDIAN ELECTIONS.
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
(Reuter's Service )
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.
FRANCE'S BEST GUARANTEE.
(Reuter's Service)
Paris, Novamber 23,
The Chamber has voted confidence in the Government by 300;
M. Poincare Answers a Question.
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An Outline of the Future.
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ELEVEN NEW APPOINTMENTS.
His Excellency the Governor appointed the following gentleman to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of Hong- Frang-
THE VOLUNTEERS.
THREE PROMOTIONS.
London, November 23. The Indian Legislative Assembly and the Provincial Councils were recently dissolved on completion of their triennial terms.to 70.
The vote of confidence followed a speech-by M. Poincare
Official-Harold Thomas Creasy. Elections are now proceeding and will conclude in mid-December.
Non-Official-Frank- Malcolm The two main Indian parties are the Liberals, who are still willing dealing with the recent decision of the Council of Ambassadors,
Crawford, Charles Bernard to assist the British and the Swarajists, or non-co-operators. So far which the Premier declared was in nowise perfect, but France pre- the elections bave been characterised by apathy and it is estimated ferred to abandon provisionally part of her ideas and demands in
Draw a line from the Chatham poses. The Town Planning Com Brown, Harold Sydney Bennett, order to avoid the withdrawal of her Allies from the various treaty Road railway bridge, Hunghommittee ware agreed on the subject Chan Tsun-nin, Chan Yo-ting, that only forty per cent of the electorate are voting.
He continged: We The outstanding feature has been the success of the Swaraj, institutions, and prevent a probable rupture. candidates, particularly in the Bombay Presidency, where they have shall obtain the best guarantee of security in the opinion of to the end of the naval coaling and large areas of land had been Ip Loo-sin. Li Shun-fan, Dr. Want won 25 soats out of sixty. Elsewhere the results are most incom- Marshal Foch and Gen. Fetain by consolidating our present sheds, Jordan Road, and you have reserved and planned out. The Man-kai, Wong Mow-lam and
an almost pear-shaped point of Kowloon Tong scheme was but Wong Ping-sun plete, but in Bengal a sensation has been caused by the defeat of positions in the occupied territories."
land bounded by water, in other the beginning of something far Mr. Das, the Advocate General and leader of the Constitutional!
will be remem words, the Kowloon Paninsula. greater. It Already its water front is largely bered that in the Party by a Swarajist. The Liberal reverses are attributed to inferior
Paris, November 23. organisation, the belief that they are subservient, disatisfaction
taken up by wharves, godowns, a of the Housing Commission it A tumult arose on one point of M. Poincare's speech, necessitataval base, railway track and sid-was recommended that the foot- with the Kenga settlement, the Viceroy's exercise of his prerogative i as regards the salt tax and his announcement that India must waiting a temporary adjournment for clearance of the public gallery. Mings. On the Chatham Road side hills be used for residential par siz rears for a revision of the Constitution. Tar outlook is gloomy Poincare stated that the French negotiators ha signed the Peace at the moment, there is only the poses, and that recommendation His Excellency the Governor as already several of the ablest Indian politicians have been de Treaty in opposition to the President (M. Paupere) and Marshal railway track, there is still room will be acted upon. From the has made the following prome tested as the polls and replaced by men determined to hamper the Foch. Then why did you accept the Treaty shouted a deputy for several playing fields, a child-back of Shamshuipo right across tions and appointments in the work of Government if their unreasonable demands are not con- "I intended to resign. but the presidents of the Chamber an1 Senate, ren's play-ground and a swim to the back of Kowloon City Hongkong Volunteer Defence ceded. The Swarajists election manifesto declared that "should the also Marshal Focb. asked me to remain," replied M. Poiccare. Aming pool. But no-one can have there is
· stretch of elevated Corps :— British refuse to concede us effective control of the machinery of notable interrupter was M. Clemenceau's former secretary. M. read the long article on barbour country which, with preparation, Lieutenant. R. M. Smith. Government our members will resort to a policy of uniform and Mandel, who refused to sit down until the house adjourned.
development which has this week will form an ideal residential M.B.E., to be Captain, Second Paris, November 23. continuous obstruction with a view to making government through
appeared in the local press with- | district.
Lieutenant H.B.L., Dowbiggin In the Chamber. M. Poincare announced that an agreement had ont realising that Kowloon Point
to be Lieutensat Second the Assembly and Councils impossible."
been reached between the Allies and almost all the Ruhr industrais inevitably destined to lose its A PEEP INTO THE FUTURE Lieutenant 3.J. Jordain. M.C. lists for resumption of deliveries in kind (Cheers!,
few remaining amenities
If we take a peep into the to be Lieutensat. a residential district. It will future we can see a modern and become not only the berthing improved ferry service running place for very many more ocean from the city of Hongkong to the going ressels than now, but its bottom of Jordan Road. Not KEEN FIGHT BETWEEN LIBERALS AND LABOUR.
water-front will be completely small passenger ferries, but bosts London, November 23.
fenced in by wharves and large enough to carry several The number of prospective triangular contests is larger than
godowns. A big railway ter-motor cars or lorries. Then by was anticipated. There will be at least fifteen in Glasgow, where!
minus for goods and passengers means of either tramways or Kelvin Grove alone is without a Labour candidate. There is some
will add to Kowloon's commer-motor bases, whichever the uneasiness in Conservative quarters at the fact that a dozen of Mr.{
Mr. Swift, presiden; of Swift and Company, parker, has sent a cialism Part of Hunghom Bay Governmen; decides, we shall be Baldwin's followers are standing as free-traders. lest they might letter to Mr. Wallace, Secretary for Agriculture, der fing that only is to be reclaimed, piers will go quickly transported to these new
other big cities, who travel to turn the scale against a tariff budget. Liberals are still convinced upon the direct order of a Court would repredatives of the jutting out into the ses, cranes, residential districts composed office every morning and back that they will at least become the second largest party. Far from Department of Agriculture be permitted to examined his Sem'a books. goods trucks and coolies will add not of blocks of flats but separate combining against the Tories there is the keenest figh: developing. Swift draws attention to the fact that no charges are pending their noisome part, and there bouses and bungalows. Wide every night, it is realised that .re- between Liberals and Labourites. Thus. Dr. Macnamara, in his
be all the commercial roads, some 100 feet and some 50 sidences must be at a distance. If is cheaper in the long ran that. election address at Camberwell, where the contest is triangular, against the company, and argues that if the Government be én-will appeals to the electors to deal a crushing blow, at both Protection Powered to maintain accountants permanently at the offices of bustle and bustle:" noise" and) feet in width, äre even betthey should be. Present Kow. Swift and Company it would also be empowered to establish euch smoke, of a modern transportent through to the foot boom residents will have to forego and Socialism. Mr. Arthur Henderson speaking at Newcastle, de accountants permanently in all business offices in the country. It centre. Chatham Road will no of the bills and will in the pleasure of Bavit LEE ALL clared that the attitude of Liberals and Conservatives in some con-is believed that the other packing companies will support Mr. Swift. longer be a promenade: it will be time, run righ: up to the home and an extra five or ten stituencies looked uncommonly like en unholy alliance to def at the
as workaday as Canton Road is sites оп which the houses minutes spent in travelling night Labour party.
THE HOME ELECTION.
NO CONFIDENCE“ IN REICHSTAG.
STRESEMANN'S GOVERNMENT RESIGNS.
Berlin, November 20.
A SWIFT RETORT.
CHICAGO MEAT PACKERS DEFIANT.
Chicago, rember 23.
COTTON GROWING IN AUSTRALIA.
THE FIRST DEFINITE STEP.
Melbourne November 23...
now. The residential amenities will be situated. The whole of
TO-DAY.
Closing Exchange 2a. 3. 11/16 High Tide 921 pm. Low Water 3.22 pm
Lighting Up-Time 3.39 p.m.
of Kowloon are doomed to dis-the fand south of the Kowloon and morning will have to be ac appear before the irresistible range of bills will be opened-isicepted as the inevitable...
The Government of Hongroug pressure of commercial expansion being opened up now. New
has often been blamed for being Thus within a comparatively townships are springing up at haphazard in its methods, but few years there will be enacted Kowloon City and Shamshuipo on there is every indication that in another chapter in the story reclaimed ground and these are the matter of opening up the foot. of changing Hongkong: com already nearly linked together hills of Kowloon and in plannink In connection with a scheme of cotton growing in the Northern mercial growth will force re-by a 100 foot road that will bring for public atility services to reach The Reichstag has rejected a motion of confidence in the GovTerritory, the Federal Government is offering leases in perpetuity sidents out to cheaper land and them well within a ten-minutes the promised residential districts ernment by 230 to 155 votes.
Upon reassembly of the Reichstag. Herr Stresemann had im. for 37 blocks of one thousand acres each. rent free during the life more congenial surroundings. We ride of each other. There is only the Government has shown com- seen it in the history a small stretch of this road left to mendable foresight. In the seem mediately demanded a decision whether the Government possessed time of the lessees, or twenty-one years from the commencement of have its confidence, whereupon Scholz, leader of the People's Party mosed the leases, whichever is the longer. This is the first definite step to of all big cities. It is only a few complete. One can now see from ng maze of development work
established cotton growing in the Northern Territory.
years ago that centrai Hongkong | Kowloon City to Stonecutters 3 vote of confidence. The ensuing debate speedily revealed the pre- cariousness of the Government's position. Von Seekte drecreas against Nationalists and Socialists were the subject of lively dis-) cu-ion in the lobbies. The Communists unsuccessfully endeavour- ed to raise the matter in the debate.
The Stresemann Government has resigned.
Berlin, Later.
`RUSSIA BUYING 500 AEROPLANES.
DECISION FOR SOCONY."
BIG CLAIM ALLOWED.
London, November 23.
The House of Lords has allowed the appeal of the Standard, Helsingfor. September 23. Oil Company of New York from the decision of the Court of Session It is understood that the Russian Government has ordered five Scotland, in the Company's claim against the Clan Line for £111,235 hundred Fokker aeroplanes from Holland for the purpose of con-as damages for loss of cargo shipped aboard the Clan Gordon, a durting a passenger and mail service between Russis and Holland, turret built ship which turned turtle and saak whilst voyaging from
GERMANY'S REGRETS.
Brussels. November 23. The German charge d'affaires has expressed to the Foreign Ministry the German Government's regrets for the recent arrest at Leipzig of the Belgo-French control commissioners.
BOILER MAKER'S DISPUTE SETTLED.
London. November 23,
New York to China.
'VON SEECKT'S HARSH DECREES.
as a European residential dis- Island, a fact very eloquent of now going on between Kowloon trick Gough Street and Peel the amonat of clearing that has City and Shamishaipo there is an definite Street and the roads roundabout been done. The main road will ordered plan and
idea, and, if the plan is adhered. housed our leading residents not only serve the needs of Government House was once on Chinese travelling to and from to and the residential areas dere- a site opposite to where the new the two points named, but it loped on lines amenable to Euro" · Grand Theatre stands at Wan- serves Kowloon Tong and much pean residents, we shall see grow chai. Time brings growth and other very desirable land. The up a better housing centre than change, and residential Kowloon new Kowloon Hospital will also is to be found in Kowloon to-day.
FIRST THINGS FIRST Canor escape. Or the island be served by it. A main 100 foot people have been forced to the up-{ road will run from Jordon Road But first things must come per levels and across the harbour, vin Gascoigne Road, to Kowloon first. First and foremost is need- and now at Kowloon they will City: Coronation Road will be ed wide main roads; already be be forced to make way for the straightened up and march of commercial expansion. right through to the foot of the improved ferries.
widened ing provided. Then is needed the The present Already Chinese houses clusterhills on the Taipo and Laichikok services have outlasted their time round Canton Road, and they Roads where sites in plenty are and generation. There is no need have ovarflowed on the waterfront to be found. One has to travel to worry about a harbour tunnet side from Yaumati right up to over this district before realising or yet a bridge if ferry boats are the boundary of the military to extent of suitable 'territory made sufficiently adequate both Berlin. November 23. land on which stand Whitfield available for house building in size and speed. The Jordan General Von Seeckt, as the supreme executive authority of the Barracks and the mule sheds. 'In --territory which hias bean Road point is the most central Reich, has forhidden and dissolved all organisations and institutions] thinking of the future peninsula, definitely set aside for residences. for the harbour side of the penin- of the Nationalist. National Socialist and Communist parties, and it is easy to see that we The future map of Kowloon will sula and, furthermore, will be the has also ordered the confiscation of their property.
shall still want
the railway show a big Chinese centre at Kow-point at which three of the main station (with a big goods depot loon City, then shipyards and roads will converge one to Kow- (in addition), we shall need the industrial enterprises along the loon Point, one to Kowloon City big hotels, the Y.M.Q.A.. the proforeshore at Hok Un, Hunghom, by way of Hunghom and another posed new Seamen's Institute, and Kowloot Point as far as down Coronation Road to Sham- shops and such like, but there Yaumati, then the Chinese shuipo. Motor buses (or trama) Paris, November 23. will be neither the room nor the centres of Yaumati and Sham- must come next, but motor buses A message from Duesseldorf states that there is a recrudescence desirability for the present Enro-shuipo with a deep sea wall for preference. If rapid and cheap of disorders among the unemployed in the Ruhr, notably at Essen, pean population of Kowloon. Pro- almost Laichikok with communication is established, the where collisions between demonstrators and the police resulted in perty will become too valuable, the oil-fuel station of the development of the residential six persons being killed and 32 wounded, of whom three killed and rents will become too high, re- Standard Oil Company terminat-districts will follow automatical three wounded were policemen.
sidential amenities will diminishing a coast full of commercially. It is no use the Government and a commercial atmosphere of activity. Back of all this, waiting until districts are crying will be dominant.
and over-looking it, will be out for transport before granting the TO THE HILLS.
new residential quarter.it. Transport must precede whilst set right in the middle of development. Then arise the questions: the whole area will be the recrea- And whilst this residential Where will the present Kow-tion grounds of King's Park. development is going on, the The National Union of Manufacturers has circularised its loan residents be housed, and Improved ferries will serve Hunghom reclamation schema The terms of the new Free State loan ate announced as ten members asking how many more workers they can employ if what is being done to provide Kowloon Point, Jordan Road, will become a fait - accompli, mállion sterling at five per cent. at ninety-&ve, redeemable in 1935 to markets be adequately protected. The replies hitherto received place them with new and accessible Shamshuipo, Kowloon City and the railway (given pesce,
the number at over half a million. The Unjon itself estimates the homes? It was this enquiry possibly other centres, whilst & the neighbouring province eventual total at a million.
which a Telegraph representative network of main and auxiliary Kwangtung and a resumption addressed to Mr AG. M. roads will serve to carry modern normal trade) will take on the Fletcher, the Assistant Coloniat road transport of whatever design propó
ons orginally dreemo Secretary, a law days ago and is eventually chosen That is no and the which later led to tour of ins- pection of the land at the foot of the Kowloon range of hills.
A ballot of boiler makers has resulted in a majority in favour of an acceptance of the settlement reached on the 16th. Work will be resumed on Monday.
THE PHILIPPINES QUESTION.
Washington, November 23. A resolution favouring America's withdrawal from the Philip pines has been lodged by Senator King for debate immediately the Senate has been convened.
1945.
IRISH FREE STATE LOAN,
Dublin, November 23.
BACK TO THEIR FOOD.
London, November 23. It is learned from Dublin that the Republican prisoners hava finally abandoned their hunger strike, commenced a month ago.
GOVERNOR WALTON INDICTED.
Oklahoma. November 23... County Grand Jury has indicted Governor Walton on
FATAL AFFRAYS AT ESSEN.
PROTECTION, AND EMPLOYMENT.
London November 23.
A BUSY FOREIGN SECRETARY."
London, November 23. Declining requests to speak on behalf of number of Conserva tive candidates, Lard Curzon explains that in view of the exceedi ly anxious position of foreign afflims he has undertaken to Ta at the Foreign Office.
Mr. Fletcher Intimated that the | Government not only foresoss the
coming gradual change-o
to
dream picture, it is something which is surely coming.
OBJECTION TO DISTANCE:
We
will come